Hi,
I'm getting an old Amd K6 cpu @ 300mhz and I'm looking for a motherboard to put it in.

I've asked around and recommended motherboards I was named were the following:

gigabyte ga-5ax

Asus P5A or P5A-B

DFI K6BV3+/66

DFI P5BV3+

Aopen ax59pro

epox mvp3g5

tyan trinity1598

tmc ti5vga-ultra

Since it can get quite hard to get a good motherboard for cheap on ebay (I'm in Germany) it's good to have as extensive a list as possible about which motherboards I should grab if the opportunity arises (so far the only cheap options I've had were of lesser ones, I saw a bunch of P5As but they were very expensive).

It's a bit expensive (46 euro), but I can pick it up since it's nearby & not pay for shipment.

So the questions are:
1. how much hassle/cost would it be to ship your board from canada to germany?
2. how does a p5a-b compare to the microatx board on the above link?
3. how much of a hassle would it be to mount a baby-at board in an atx case? I tried hunting for baby-at cases on ebay and non-dumpster-quality are really hard to find.

I'm leaning towards getting the local board and saving us both a bunch of work, since I already got this old microatx case+power supply that used to house a pentium2 and the local board would fit right in. the local board has fewer expansion slots that the pa5-b, but I only need AGP for my voodoo 3 3500 & 2 PCIs for an ethernet card & soundblaster live. Also the pa5-b can support higher fsb, but right now I'm only getting a k6-300 which I hope to run at maximum 100mhz fsb anyway.

Ideally, for best results, you want a K6-3+ processor. They will easily clock up to 600 MHZ, which is what you need to watch videos. I know NOTHING about the type of board that you have found, so I can't say if it is good or not. The local store I went to has plenty of K6-2 500 processors, but they are not as good as K6-3+ processors. Re the cost of mailing a board to Germany from Canada, I am not sure, but I could check.

Well I don't really need to watch videos on it, I mostly just want to play old (dos/win9x) games (I have a modern cheapo i3 PC desktop for day to day stuff). I think I'll buy the microAtx board from the local guy, the specs look good enough (ali5 with 512kb cache, 100mhz fsb) & it will be a lot less hassle than shipping stuff around the globe I really appreciate the offer though!